Water
Operation and Maintenance of Water Treatment Plants
A programme in operating and maintaining drinking water and industrial water treatment plants: treatment units and how they are operated, operating calculations, the operating plan, reports and documentation, maintenance programmes, and evaluating plant performance and reducing operating cost.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
5 days
Training hours
25 hours
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Understand water sources, the contaminants in them and the basic systems used to treat them.
- Operate and control treatment units and carry out basic operating calculations.
- Build the plant’s operating plan and its reporting and documentation system.
- Distinguish between types of maintenance and organise a planned maintenance programme for the plant.
- Evaluate the performance of the plant and its units and identify opportunities to reduce operating cost.
Content
What the programme covers
Day 1: water and its treatment
- Surface water, groundwater and seawater sources, their main contaminants, and why water is treated.
- Basics of water chemistry and treatment terminology, and the quality required for each use.
Day 2: treatment units
- Coagulation, flocculation and the jar test, sedimentation, and media filtration and backwashing.
- Membrane separation, ion exchange, adsorption on activated carbon, oxidation and iron and manganese removal, and disinfection.
Day 3: operation and its calculations
- Operating calculations: chemical doses, detention time, and surface loading rates for basins and filters.
- The operating plan: daily procedures, control points, operating logs and periodic reports, and documentation.
- Operating problems to expect in treatment units and how to deal with them.
Day 4: maintenance
- Types of maintenance: preventive, predictive and corrective; structuring and scheduling the maintenance programme.
- Maintenance of pumps, dosing pumps, motors, valves, filters and instruments, and computerised maintenance management systems and their records.
Day 5: performance evaluation and improvement
- Performance indicators for the plant and its units, and analysis of recorded operating data.
- Reducing operating cost in energy, chemicals and losses, and the basis for upgrading the plant.
- Preparing the individual action plan, followed by the assessment.
Who it is for
Target audience
Engineers, supervisors, operators and managers of drinking water and industrial water treatment plants, and their maintenance technicians.
Method
Delivery method
Workshops, discussion sessions, case studies and calculation exercises; each participant prepares an action plan to apply at their plant. Examples can be adapted to the treatment units of the organisation’s plant if it shares the plant layout and operating data with the centre. In Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
Does the programme cover wastewater treatment plants?
No. This programme covers drinking water and industrial water treatment plants; sewage treatment plants have a separate programme, Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants and Tertiary Treatment.
Can it be delivered at our plant?
Yes. It can be delivered at the organisation’s premises with a plant walk-through that links its units to what is covered in the classroom, as far as the organisation’s safety procedures allow.
Is there a certificate?
Every participant who attends the programme and passes the assessment receives a certificate of completion from Technology Experts Training Center, licensed by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.